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No need for a president shortly?

  • 01-10-2011 5:36pm
    #1
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭


    European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said in an interview that the EU's institutions need to be strengthened to stabilize the euro zone, arguing that national governments can't be trusted to take determined action.

    He said that setting rules for a stable euro zone could not only be left to the member states. "That will never work," he said, explaining that national governments "always try to negotiate." Barroso said there was a good reason why there were independent institutions such as the European Commission -- the EU's executive body -- and the EU's Court of Justice.

    Barroso announced that he would submit proposals for closer economic policy coordination between all 27 countries in the coming weeks. The EU will only make a "convincing" impression internationally if it has "strong institutions," Barroso said.


    http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,789300,00.html

    The case for a Central European government to be presented in the coming weeks, quite possibly.
    Will we be going to the polls again?


Comments

  • #2
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    A good spate of defaults might shut him up


  • #3
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Personally I think the EU can't be trusted. It seems that he's scapegoating the inadequacies of the EU and the lack of foresight for the single-currency to the constituent member states.


  • #4
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    philologos wrote: »
    Personally I think the EU can't be trusted. It seems that he's scapegoating the inadequacies of the EU and the lack of foresight for the single-currency to the constituent member states.

    Scapegoating and massive European powers go way back.


  • #5
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    While I neither agree with or like him, he's talking about the management of a common currency in what you've posted. I think your leap from there to single European government and removal of our head of state is a bit of a long one.


  • #6
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    While I neither agree with or like him, he's talking about the management of a common currency in what you've posted. I think your leap from there to single European government and removal of our head of state is a bit of a long one.

    It could be said that if you control the money you control the country.

    "Give me the right to issue and control a nation's money and I care not who governs the country.”
    Meyer Amschal Rothschild, International banker.


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  • #7
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    mikom wrote: »
    It could be said that if you control the money you control the country.

    "Give me the right to issue and control a nation's money and I care not who governs the country.”
    Meyer Amschal Rothschild, International banker.


    Indeed, but we still have the right to leave the Euro. On the whole though, no matter what happens with the Euro, the OP contention that the posted comments equal imminent loss of our head of state is just a huge leap.


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